tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555487744976580528.post4420341054165899722..comments2023-11-02T07:44:36.283-07:00Comments on Orthodoxy and Recovery: Making the Intolerable Tolerable is ImpossibleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555487744976580528.post-67074380907384360672013-06-22T05:32:12.901-07:002013-06-22T05:32:12.901-07:00Thank you! Thank you! fortodayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10853074883708351449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555487744976580528.post-33034703894959650432013-06-21T12:52:27.516-07:002013-06-21T12:52:27.516-07:00Thanks for catching my brain running faster than m...Thanks for catching my brain running faster than my fingers, or perhaps the other way around! :) I rewrote that section, which I hope will make it a bit clearer.<br /><br />Tolerance is the avoidance of change. What I meant to point out is that successful prisoners of conscience know that they cannot avoid being changed by the 'system,' so they instead try to harness the change for the better. I have even seen real criminals do the same thing, and they become far better men than many of us who never break the law.Fr. Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01377360010219230919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555487744976580528.post-48264181844951744372013-06-21T12:02:46.189-07:002013-06-21T12:02:46.189-07:00Thank for a great blog. I have been following it f...Thank for a great blog. I have been following it for a couple of months now. I'm learning a lot!<br /><br />One question: I don't really understand this sentance: "Successful prisoners do this and become amazing people because they stop trying to make the intolerable conditions of pointless prison torture and confinement into intolerable conditions of spiritual and personal growth."<br /><br />What do you mean with "intolerable conditions of spiritual and personal growth"?fortodayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10853074883708351449noreply@blogger.com